In her catatonic state she was dull Forever deprived of reality She watched the world idiotically With an expressionless face She seemed to have no thoughts She gave the illusion of no authority She was battered and trampled on Worth nothing Forever doomed to this way of life In a society that knew not of acknowledgement Her family never once turned to see if she was there They all wished her death She was alone with nothing left No family, disregarded forever she was left for dead Dumped on the dirt road she once walked, she was left there alone Wandering, isolated from everyone else She smiled Her life was no longer irrelevant She took the small shard of glass from the floor and pierced the flesh of her neck She had the power, she took it Deeper faster harder longer the cuts grew The world was lit Spinning, spinning she hovered She leapt in the air Autonomy alas She fell to the ground And never woke again Forever dreaming of her last thoughts Smiling and laughing Floating gliding through the air She chose to take her life Freedom alas! Forever! And never deprived of it! Acknowledgement at last! Eternal happiness devoured She watched her fall Hit the ground Head first legs last She bled Quickly she bled Spilling her life out Rivets of ruby liquid flowing down the road into a near by stream She worked swiftly as the sirens grew She worked quickly Attempting a rouge for her younger sister She never did this…she’d never do this She worked swiftly Carefully and skillfully she worked In her head the words she repeated “she never did this, she’d never do this” pounding repeating branding her brain She worked quickly Finally arriving the ambulance took her away As she watched them take her She noticed the white light bouncing on her sibling’s face She cried She started to realize her sister’s position She was at the point a self demolition Because she was walking the world dead from the inside Her organs all dead Her heart made of lead She became the living dead Forever damned to walk this earth Viewed and placed as subhuman She cried Why oh why was she deprived of her humanity! Why not me! Why not me! She shrieked these words again and again Until finally she saw the small river That once carried the ruby red juiced down stream She cried once again, low this time…why not me… Almost whimpering she leaped Awaiting the cold water below her to engulf her She sunk Deeper and deeper into her pool of depression She cried out for her sibling sister And for the last time she breathed Not air nor water She breathed the sweet scent of her sister Remembering the sweet memories that they had shared Forever sisters She awoke and found her sibling sister aside her She picked her up And they hugged each other Forever sisters…….in life and death….forever sisters -Paola Guerrero